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CAESAR is Northwestern’s system of record for student data. Students, faculty, advisers, parents, guardians, and staff use CAESAR to manage classes and grades, pay bills, view financial aid, process admissions, and maintain demographic data.
NUFinancials is the centerpiece of the University’s financial management systems. It supports the accounting and budgeting functions that feed the University’s general ledger, and works with related reporting, facilities management, purchasing, sponsored research, financial forecasting, and annual budgeting systems.
End User Computing is a contracted service that provides computer support, both desk-side and remote, to individuals and departments across the University. This service helps customers meet business needs through the reliable implementation of computing environments, while providing an exceptional customer service experience through integrity, accountability and respect.
Bookings with me in Outlook is a web-based personal scheduling page that integrates with the free/busy information from your Outlook calendar.
myHR is Northwestern’s system of record for Human Resources data. Employees and Administrators can access processes and data associated with payroll, benefits, talent acquisition, and compensation.
In partnership with Smartsheet, Inc., Northwestern provides a cloud-based project management tool and business workflow tool.
Zoom is available to anyone with a valid Northwestern NetID, and its use is intended for the purpose of conducting University-related activities. To get an account and begin using it immediately, visit the Zoom login page, sign in with your NetID and password, and authenticate using Duo MFA. An account is provisioned automatically upon first login.
Email and calendaring services provide standard individual e-mail, calendaring, and contact management services.
ArcGIS is a geographic information systems (GIS) ecosystem from Esri used for mapping, spatial analytics, and data.
ConnectNU is Northwestern’s online undergraduate advising platform that coordinates scheduling, messaging, and other advising interactions to coordinate student support.
Desktops & Laptops (Windows & Mac) issued to Library Staff
NetID services take information from the HR or student system and create unified Northwestern credentials (NetIDs) that are then connected with information about each individual. NetIDs are then used as the primary way for people to interact with IT services. Other types of NetIDs can be created as well for specific people, organizations, or IT system purposes.
Blackthorn Events is a Salesforce-native app that Northwestern has configured to work within our implementation of Kindsight’s ascend product. This tool helps manage event registration and reporting by collecting event RSVPs through an online form integrated directly into our CRM. Functionality supports both in-person and online events that require various degrees of complexity.
Regular data backups reduce the risk of permanent data loss that can occur for many reasons including hardware failure, power failure, and virus attacks. In continuing its commitment to the protection of mission critical data at the University, Northwestern IT is participating with University schools and departments to provide a secure hosted data backup solution for workstation machines.
Work with a learning engineer from Teaching & Learning Technologies to better understand how your learning objectives and assessments connect to and support student learning.
NUworkspace offers users a virtual Windows desktop service that provides access to a suite of many software applications to faculty, students, and staff, including access to software packages that may not be readily available on their desktop/laptop computers.
Consultations are available for a broad range of data science, AI, and statistical methods - from machine learning and large language models to data analysis and reproducibility.
Firewall services are available to IT units that want to protect departmental user networks from external threats. These can be installed to protect server or client networks.
Firewalls represent one component of a strategy to combat malicious activities and assaults on computing resources and network-accessible information. Other components include antivirus software and intrusion detection software.
Northwestern University's agreement with Adobe offers the full Adobe Creative Cloud software suite for use by eligible faculty and staff.
The Northwestern Public Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows users with Northwestern NetIDs to access University network resources as if they were directly connected to the Northwestern network.Virtual Private Network (VPN) establishes a "secure tunnel" for your computer on the Northwestern network. It provides strong encryption, enables authenticated access to the Northwestern network from external and untrusted environments, and proxies your network traffic so it appears to originate from within the Northwestern network.
Microsoft Teams is a secure, Cloud-based chat and group collaborative workspace that seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft 365 applications, including Exchange, OneDrive, and SharePoint.
Yammer is an internal social networking tool for faculty, staff, and students which offers a host of social networking features to make it easy to communicate and collaborate from anywhere with just about anyone at the University.